Talk of Benghazi conspiracy doesn't make sense

10:07 PM,
May 15, 2013

Written by

Eugene
ROBINSON

Those who are trying to make the Benghazi tragedy into a scandal for the Obama administration really ought to decide what story line they want to sell.

Actually, by "those" I mean Republicans and by "the Obama administration" I mean Hillary Clinton. The only coherent purpose I can discern in all of this is to sully Clinton's record as secretary of state in case she runs for president in 2016.

That's not a particularly noble way to use the deaths of four American public servants, but it's understandable. Attempts to concoct some kind of sinister Whitewater-style conspiracy, however, don't even ...